Recent TMA actions in several crucial areas stand out as we work to support our members and improve the industry as a whole.

We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution — at a point where we have logged more data in the past two years than in the entire history of mankind.

This mission has continued to resonate within the alarm industry and within law enforcement as both groups seek to find ways to further reduce false alarms and increase the effectiveness of police response.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) released its all-new training course for monitoring center operators, created to address the challenges of the 21st century.

Emergency24’s mass notification platform, Incident Command and Communication, now includes post-emergency functionality.

With the addition of the Maryland location, COPS reported, it operates the largest network of hot-redundant and load-sharing wholesale monitoring centers in the industry.

SentryNet, a wholesale central station company founded in 1987, launched SWARM Secure. SWARM Secure is an end user, self-installed, smart security system allowing security dealers to offer a competitive solution in the do-it-yourself and self-installed security systems market.

Morgan Hertel, vice president of technology and innovation for Rapid Response Monitoring Services, Inc., was awarded The Monitoring Association (TMA)’s highest honor.

3xLOGIC and Sonitrol of Evansville are working to provide highly effective security protection for all of Hutson Inc’s John Deere dealerships located in Kentucky and Tennessee.

FIBARO is now shipping the Door/Window Sensor 2, a Z-Wave Plus certified smart home device.